doll city

10 points.

The five people returned to the first floor panting, but the fear on Xiao Gang's face did not decrease by half.

"Brother Sun, Brother Sun." Xiaogang said tremblingly, covered in cold sweat, "It seems to have been following me...it has reached the third floor."

Sun Ye said violently: "What exactly is it, you should explain clearly."

"I don't know what it is, but when I close my eyes, I, I become that thing..." Xiao Gang's eyes were bloodshot, and he said, "I can't be... being possessed by a ghost."

Everyone didn't speak, but they all looked at the stairwell at the other end of the corridor.

"Shh."

Yan Ge made a silent movement, first put his ears against the wall, but didn't hear any sound, then leaned down and glanced up from the gap in the stairs. Two seconds later, his pupils shrank.

The corridor lights cast an irregular shadow on the railing near the third floor. This shadow moved like a stop-motion animation. At least Yan Ge couldn't capture its moving trajectory, and it landed downstairs frame by frame.

"How?" Xiao Yi asked.

Yan Ge took a deep breath, and walked up to Xiao Gang: "Don't blink, try to keep your eyes open."

Xiao Gang was taken aback for a moment, then blinked a bit at last, opened his eyes and asked, "Why?"

Yan Ge signaled him to get up, and said, "Have you heard of □□-173?"

"What?" Sun Ye and Sun Ye were at a loss.

"I, I've heard of it!" Xiao Yi hurriedly said, seeing everyone around her, she lowered her voice again, pushed her glasses and said, "That's a circle called the □□ Foundation on the Internet, people from all over the world Netizens submit their imaginary monster designs to the website, among which the most famous one is a concrete statue numbered 173, as long as humans see it, close their eyes or look away from it, it will teleport to your side Break your neck."

Yan Ge nodded and said: "His situation should be similar, but not exactly the same. As long as the eyes are closed, the angle of view will become a monster... No, the angle of view of the living puppet, every time you blink, the living puppet will turn into a monster." It will get closer to him. If the guess is correct, the living puppet has already locked him as its target, as long as he continues to blink at a high frequency, the living puppet will find him immediately."

"But...then why am I the only one? Why don't you have any?"

"Maybe it's not our turn yet," Dong Li said.

The terrifying atmosphere spread silently, and everyone was silent. Xiao Yi rubbed her cold arms and said, "Why don't you forget it, today is not Sunday, even if you find someone to change the post tomorrow, it's better than asking someone to change the post without knowing why." To die in these ghastly places."

"Alright." Dong Li nodded first, and said, "Stay here first, the puppet came down from the stairwell on the right, and I will go up to the second floor from the left to see the situation on the street."

Seeing him leave, Yan Ge asked, "Is it possible to run away when you meet a puppet that you don't want to deal with?"

"This... I'm not sure. In some places you can run, and in some places you will die." Xiao Yi smiled wryly, "I can only see if there are live puppets wandering outside, and then find a way to try it later. Give it a try, if it works, you can simply stay in the playground until twelve o'clock, and you'll pass if you survive."

It is too dangerous to go out of the teaching building without authorization. Going to the second floor is enough to confirm whether the terrain of the teaching campus is safe or not. Everyone has no opinion, so Dong Li should be careful and let him leave.

In the lobby on the first floor of the teaching building, the remaining four people were silent with each other, so quiet that only the slight current of the lamp tube was left.

"Then, what should we do now? It... is getting closer."

After Xiao had just finished speaking, the lamp tubes in the teaching building made a piercing electric sound again, and as a burst of sparks splashed on the electric box, the entire floor fell into darkness again.

1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds.

When the light came back on again, Sun Ye suddenly yelled, "Damn it, I saw it too! The art room...the one in the glass cabinet is a plaster statue!!"

Xiao Yi covered her mouth in horror, "Could it be contagious?!"

"Before it was just a fight, what the hell is this!" Sun Ye stepped back while cursing.

Xiaogang still stretched his eyelids, but his eyes were prone to soreness due to nervousness, and he also found desperately that the moving speed of the puppet seemed to be getting faster and faster.

"Sun, Brother Sun, what about you?"

Sun Ye, who was also being targeted, was extremely irritable: "Damn, I've been here for so long, I haven't seen any monsters! Xiaogang, since it's following you, why don't you just run away?!"

"Yes, yes, I'll run farther." Xiao Gang regained some strength and took two steps to the other side. Because the sweat on his forehead dripped into his eyes, he couldn't help blinking again, and then his face showed joy "It can't catch up with me, I just ran out!!"

"Wait a moment--"

Yan Ge's intuition was not that simple. As soon as he spoke, Xiao Gang ran to the gate of the teaching building. Just as he was about to step out of the glass door, the light flickered again, and the teaching building fell into darkness again.

A strange coolness pierced into his ears, and in this brief darkness, Yan Ge felt a gaze fixed on the top of his head, as if some strange existence was staring at him with an inorganic malice in the darkness.

The darkness also brightened at the same time, first the gray-blue skylight outside the window caught the eye, and then a messy and narrow art room appeared before the eyes.

... This place has been abandoned for a while, and even the unfinished red apples on the canvas have become moldy and dried up, pencil stubs are scattered in the corner, and piles of geometric plaster dust are piled up in the corner.

But the door on the left was open. From Yan Ge's perspective, he happened to see the back of a plaster statue at the door.

It was about the height of an adult's thigh, covered in dust, and was even splashed with a lot of old paint. The second Yan Ge noticed it, it disappeared suddenly.

And before he could observe the environment brought by this weird vision in detail, Xiao Yi's screams of extreme fear came from his ears.

"What it is!!"

Yan Ge opened his eyes and saw the door of the teaching building. Xiao Gang still kept running out of the door, but it was as if a frame was captured by the camera. His body was motionless, and the entire head to shoulder position , was "eaten" by a plaster bust.

No one could clearly see how the plaster cast was placed on his head in an instant. In the blink of an eye, it happened like this.

Ticking blood dripped from the seams where the plaster statue had just been covered. Obviously...the bones, flesh, and tissues inside were also squeezed into a structure suitable for the inner space of the plaster statue in that instant.

"Fuck!" Sun Ye yelled and ran away.

Yan Ge on the other side also reacted at the same time, grabbed Xiao Yi who was terrified, and ran up the stairwell on the other side.

Xiao Yi forcibly suppressed the nausea surging in her stomach, and ran along while shouting: "Can I go to the second floor!"

Yan Ge: "I don't know, anyway, the first floor won't work. Originally, the plaster statue didn't have feet, but now it has feet. I guess... now it can chase whoever it wants."

As if confirming his guess, Xiao Yi glanced back before running into the stairwell, which almost didn't scare her out of her wits.

Xiao Gang, or the monster whose chest has been swallowed up by plaster statues, seemed to be getting his feet for the first time. He staggered a few times, his hands rubbed bloodstains on the broken glass, and stood up dangling. At this moment, the plaster eyes, like the originally dull eyes, seemed to have absorbed some kind of vitality at this moment, and gradually glowed an ominous red light...

"F*ck!!" Xiao Yi lost her mind for a moment, scolding louder than Sun Ye, as if her survival instinct erupted in an instant, instead she passed Yan Ge and dragged him up the stairs in one breath.

The two ran upstairs desperately, running up to the fourth floor, but they reached the locked staircase again.

Xiao Yi's bones were sore from running, and she gasped, "What should I do, the puppet went down there, but the corridor here is locked!"

"Go to the classroom corridor on the fourth floor first, at least both sides can go there." Yan Ge said.

When going downstairs, the two of them were extra careful, listening carefully to the movement in the corridor, and hid in a toilet on the fourth floor.

"Sun Ye seems to be going upstairs from the east. If our side is blocked, then... can we only go to the fifth floor through the corridor on his side?" Xiao Yi listened to the bottom of the stairs 30 meters away. Hearing the movement, he swallowed his saliva, "But if we pass now, will we directly bump into the plaster statue chasing Sun Ye?"

Xiao Yi asked a question, but got no reply, turned to look at Yan Ge, and found that he was playing with his mobile phone.

"...Are you writing your last words on your phone?" Xiao Yi broke down.

Yan Ge lowered his head and pressed the phone, and suddenly said without thinking: "In the common solutions to high school sequence problems, as long as there are the 'first term' and the second and third terms, a certain pattern can usually be deduced."

"what?"

Yan Ge said: "If Sun Ye and the others are the first and second items, then I am the third item. There are five of us in total. According to the current law, the plaster statue should be according to..."

"It's the order of entering the building!"

After getting a positive nod, Xiao Yi became even more nervous.

"Indeed, Sun Ye and the others are going ahead, you are the third, and I am the fourth...Brother Dong is behind, what about Dong Li?"

Xiao Yi looked around, and the fourth floor where they fled was now quiet, only occasionally there were some strange noises from downstairs.

"Maybe he is hiding, he should be the safest now." Not knowing what to think, Yan Ge stopped talking, and continued, "There is no way to escape, if you escape directly from the teaching building, just like just now, in an instant Will be chased and killed by live puppets... Do you have chewing gum?"

"Yes, but yes... What's the use of chewing gum?" Xiao Yi took out a small bottle from her pocket, poured out two and handed it to him.

"It doesn't have any important effect, but I haven't seen this scene before, and I feel a little nauseous." Yan Ge said.

Xiao Yi's reliable impression of him gradually collapsed, and there was a bit of crying in her voice: "Aren't you a policeman?"

Yan Ge is naturally emotionally sensitive, but his ability to resolve emotions is poor.

In order to avoid excessive emotional accumulation, his father gave him a way of thinking about regulating emotions since he was a child - that is, to build a huge basement in his imagination. If there are excessive fear, anger and other emotions, he will instinctively put them away Some emotions are sealed and stuffed into the "basement".

The actor's career choice is also to find a suitable role to resolve these emotions.But at the same time, because of not revealing his emotions, he is considered cold and alienated.

"Can't the police have interns?" The smell of mint spread in his mouth, Yan Ge felt a little better, and his thoughts became clearer. "Continuing from the above, the pursuit is sequential, which represents the first plaster cast wearing a helmet..."

Xiao Yi said: "You mean the first Hermes?"

"How do you know that plaster statue looks like Hermes?" Yan Ge glanced at her unexpectedly.

If you have not studied art, it is difficult for ordinary people to tell the names of these plaster statues, except for the famous statue of David.

Xiao Yi coughed twice in embarrassment, and said with erratic eyes: "I changed my major to nursing, and I learned a little art before."

Hermes...

"Hmm." Yan Ge nodded, as if he suddenly thought of something, flipped through the information stored in the phone, but continued without asking any further questions, "Then let's assume for the time being that what we saw just now is number one. The plaster statue, Sun Ye's No. [-] plaster statue will chase him to the fourth floor first, and my No. [-] plaster statue is under intentional control. It has just gone about three meters away, and it is still a long time before it catches up with me. .”

Xiao Yi was confused and asked cautiously: "Then what is the plan?"

"Our ultimate goal is not to go round and round with the plaster statues in this building, but to go to the fifth floor to find that 'Mr. Those who are targeted are safe, just now we finally saw the No. [-] plaster statue..."

Yan Ge paused, and found a suitable adjective, "The No. [-] plaster statue has 'killed' Sun Ye's accomplices, and it is now most likely to chase Sun Ye first, and form a pincer attack with the No. [-] plaster statue. The situation... how can the puppet you saw before be considered defeated?"

Xiao Yi recalled it for a while, and said: "Actually, it's not that scary, just smash it up. The main reason is that it has some unknown strange ability."

Yan Ge thought of the wooden models he met at the beginning, and it was enough to break them. After thinking for a while, he said: "Then it makes sense, the instant kill of the living doll is conditional, for example, I can only be matched by me I can be killed instantly if No. [-] puppet catches up with me, but if I meet Sun Ye’s accomplices, I should still have a chance to struggle.”

"The situation is not too bad. Judging from the material alone, the plaster is very brittle. Even if Sun Ye is caught up by the No. [-] plaster statue, Sun Ye has that kind of strength, which should be enough to repel it and escape. During this time, There is no danger on the fourth floor."

Xiao Yi: "How do you know it won't teleport directly to Sun Ye in the same way, crushing him to death?"

"Probably not. If it can teleport without restriction, then what's the point of having 'legs'? What's the point of controlling the human body to chase Sun Ye?"

Think about it carefully, living puppets rely on the moving speed of a person with their eyes closed, it is difficult to catch up with a freely moving person, so they have to rely on captured living people to restrict their movements to have a chance.

Thinking about it now, if Xiaogang was allowed to stay on the first floor at the beginning, and they marched from the fourth floor to the fifth floor, it would be a matter of minutes to find the art room safely.

However, unlike dead creatures that absolutely obey orders, it is difficult to have absolute trust between human beings.

At this moment, Yan Ge finally finished pressing the phone, and said: "My parents often say that everything in the world has a law and a solution. This game is most likely a game of finding rules, and the living puppet hunts down us through the frequency of our blinking." , the person being targeted has already lost the qualification to find Mr. Poclain, and can only count on you who have not been targeted by No. [-]."

"Me?" Xiao Yi suddenly had goosebumps, "What should I do?"

Yan Ge continued: "When human beings are in a normal state of mind, they blink 15 times per minute. I just observed my No. 0.75 plaster statue. Every time I blink, it will advance a normal person one step, which is [-] meters. I can try my best to Control it to stay on the fifth floor for the time being, but only for a few minutes at most, the rest of the clearance depends on you."

Xiao Yi was a little timid: "Then I don't know what's going on when I go up, even if I'm sent to die, can you be more tactful?"

Yan Ge: "You should have more experience than me. I'm just a newcomer, and I have an 80-year-old grandma and a younger sister who is in elementary school. I don't want to die yet."

...I don't want to die either!

The other party looked calm, Xiao Yi thought about it carefully, his arrangement was not unreasonable, she went up to find out the situation and there might be a way to survive, but if Yan Ge was caught, he would die.After thinking for a while, she said, "Okay, so what are we going to do now?"

Yan Ge: "Wait, after plaster No. [-] chased Sun Ye down the stairs, and plaster No. [-] chased me down the fourth floor, you went to the art room on the fifth floor by yourself and handed over the invitation to the so-called Poclan." gentlemen."

"But I don't know yet which Mr. Poclain is—"

Halfway through Xiao Yi's speech, she suddenly heard Sun Ye yelling loudly downstairs, smashing something heavily, and then a long shadow appeared on the stairs in front of her like a ghost.

Yan Ge made a silent movement, and hid in the bathroom next to him. Soon they saw that the No. [-] plaster statue chasing Sun Ye teleported to the stairs on the fourth floor.

And Sun Ye downstairs seemed to be blinking extremely fast under extremely nervous conditions. In less than half a second, the plaster statue went down the stairs.

"It's now!"

……

Sun Ye escaped from the stairwell on the other side, and when he reached the third floor, he had to stop.

Before he closed his eyes for the last time, he had already seen the plaster statue reached the corner of the fourth floor, and on the next floor, he would collide with that thing head-on.

"Damn...damn..."

Cursing continuously, trying to counteract the overwhelming panic, Sun Ye clenched his fists and tried to back away, but Xiao Gang's plaster man downstairs had already climbed up the stairs.

He glanced down from the gap in the stairs, and the monster was climbing up the stairs. It seemed that because he was not very good at using his legs, he was lying on the stairs and crawling with his limbs at a gradually accelerating speed. The hands leave a dark handprint on each step.

It came after...

Cold sweat had already wet his neck. Sun Ye listened to the rustling downstairs from behind the door, clenched the baseball bat he brought with him, and waited until the shadow climbed up to the second floor, his arms slightly The ground swelled up, full of strength enough to break steel bars...

... three, two, one.

"Death to me!"

The moment the thing climbed up, Sun Ye swung it suddenly, only to hear a shattering sound, the head of the plaster man was deeply sunken, and a piece of the shattered part fell out along with the white lime plaster. A block of fleshy tissue.

It was beaten and rolled down the stairs, and Sun Ye was splashed with lime mixed with blood, and at the same time was shocked back a few steps by the force of the counter-shock.

However, even though the power of this living puppet is several times that of ordinary people, it is not as strong as when he activated his skills. After realizing this, Sun Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

"It turned out to be just a piece of trash! Damn it, what am I worried about...it's just plaster..."

He took a breath, the plaster statue above his head had just caught up to the fourth floor, and now he walked from the other side, as long as he controlled the blinking frequency, the plaster statue would definitely not be able to catch up.

Sun Ye patted the ashes on his body, and when he was about to leave, his footsteps suddenly stopped, and he couldn't help but look at the body of Xiao Gang who had been beaten to the ground by him.

With a thought in his heart, he stopped in his tracks.

What these veterans didn't tell the newcomers was that the chance of dropping a skill from hitting a living puppet was extremely low, but killing a living person who acquired a skill had a [-]% chance of dropping a skill.

"Xiao Gang, you are dead, you have to drop something good for big brother, and when big brother is strong enough, I will burn some paper money for you..."

The greed in his heart was like weeds. Sun Ye walked down the stairs slowly, peeling off the broken stones mixed with flesh and blood with disgust on his face, wanting to confirm whether Xiao Gang still had his last breath, when he suddenly touched something and took it from inside. Get out a note.

"O... Ergong?"

He turned over the note, read the words on the note, was very puzzled, and put it in his pocket casually. Just as he was about to continue touching the corpse, his legs tightened suddenly, and the half-broken doll on the ground started to move. A strange force firmly grabbed his ankle, revealing half of his face mixed with blood and white plaster.

The rising gypsum dust hit his face, Sun Ye blinked instinctively, but soon he realized something was wrong.

He saw his back, and at the same time, a white plaster statue stood upright behind him.

In just a few seconds, when his brain reacted, half of his face seemed to be corroded by some kind of virus, and the skin on his body hardened rapidly, as if a crust had formed. Moisture dries up quickly...

His blood cooled down, and he closed his eyes for the last time. Sun Ye felt his body sink, the surrounding air became thinner, and something obvious was squeezing his entire head.

An old, opera singer's voice rang in his head.

"—Princess Ling invited us to the princess's wedding,

The wise messenger with his invitation,

Foolish sacrificial meat brings a good meal.

Please answer what is my name,

This will determine whether you are the messenger, or my dinner. "

In the blink of an eye, Sun Ye seemed to have thought of something, pulled out a crumpled envelope from his pocket, and said hoarsely: "Don't, don't kill me! We are here to deliver a letter to you, and you are... Pokran gentlemen!"

This plaster statue originally had its eyes closed, but at the moment he answered, its frozen face seemed to have emotions, the corners of its mouth slowly turned up, and it opened its red eyes, showing a greedy and cruel human expression on its face .

"The answer is wrong, you are sacrificial meat."

……

At 10:59, No. [-] Middle School, Teaching Building No. [-].

In the semi-abandoned teaching building, pairs of red eyes were glued to the glass window at the end of the corridor. The malicious gaze almost leaked from the other side of the glass. All the malice was focused on a man humming a happy tune in the corridor.

Putting his hands in his coat pockets, the man made a series of brisk sounds in the bumpy concrete corridor, deliberately provocative, and hummed a happy nursery rhyme in the empty teaching building——

"I'm going to burn the school~ The teacher can't control~~

The little bird said that it was early morning~ in the middle of the night, I carried the bomb~drug~bag on my back..."

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Character Panel (Currently information can be disclosed)

Name: Yan Ge

Condition: (90/100) Minor scratches

Skill: Forest's Resentment Melted into Iron Armor [hardening (from the wooden shopping mall model)]

Possessions: costumes and police uniforms (already equipped), mobile phone (8% battery), water gun, steel shell flashlight, instant noodles x2, fire axe.

Current task: Find Gu Lili's whereabouts (unfinished)

Find Mr. Pokland at Ciling Ninth Middle School and send an invitation (in progress)

…………

He's coming he's coming

Our gong came with three hundred of his nursery rhymes